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Goals & Guidelines

Patrick was a very inquisitive person by nature. He loved to collect information, and you never knew when or how he would use it constructively in a discussion. (Not to mention the fact that he was a whiz at Trivial Pursuit!) So it is fitting in his memory to support nurses in the clinical application of their own inquisitiveness to benefit patient care.

We are especially grateful for funding of our grant program in part by GetWellNetwork. This interactive patient care system is an evidence-based platform for patient, family and nurse engagement. GetWellNetwork is dedicated to helping nurses improve both patient satisfaction and outcomes. To that end, they established the O'Neil Center to support research to quantify the impact of patient engagement on quality and safety. GetWellNetwork's commitment to nurses, patient care and research makes it a natural sponsor of our work.

Program Goals

For the DAISY Foundation: Funding research and evidence-based practice projects links our yearning to impact treatment of patients with auto-immune diseases and cancer and our passion for the compassionate work nurses do in healthcare facilities all over the world.

For Nurse Researchers: This program provides support for nurses who

Continually evaluate their practice

Seek answers to clinical questions in an effort to improve their practice

Change their practice based on evidence and evaluation of that change

For Patients With Auto-Immune Diseases and Cancer: Nurses will improve care outcomes as a result of their findings!

General Guidelines and Requirements

To be eligible, the principal investigator of the study must be a registered nurse with a current license.

Research must impact patients or family members of patients with an auto-immune disease or cancer. While we recognize the vital importance of caring for nurses in improving outcomes for patients, our grants are exclusively for studies or evidence-based practice projects that directly benefit patients and/or their families. If your work will not directly include patients or their families with cancer or an auto-immune disease, your study or project will not be considered.

It is imperative that nurse clinicians play a meaningful role in your study or project in its conceptualization, data collection, analysis, and/or reporting. You will be asked to describe the role of staff nurses both in your letter of intent and application to ensure that this program is enhancing the research/EBP knowledge and experience of nurse clinicians.

We seek studies whose findings will be transferable to other organizations and practitioners once they are completed.

Applicants should be ready to implement their projects immediately following funding from The DAISY Foundation. This is one reason why our application requires you provide evidence of permission to use the tools you propose.

Only projects approved by your IRB or which have been exempted in writing by your IRB will be funded. A copy of your IRB approval on IRB letterhead and with an appropriate signature will be required prior to our funding your grant. If you do not have IRB approval yet, that is not a problem. You may apply for a grant while IRB approval is pending. Just know we will not actually fund without IRB approval.

Studies and projects should plan to be completed within one year of starting the work.

Checks will only be written to your institution or a specified fund at your institution, not to an individual investigator.

What We May Fund

What We Will Not Fund

Small equipment (such as recording devices)

Laptop computers and tablets such as iPads

Software, excluding SPSS and other statistical packages

Institutional overhead

Supplies

CITI training

Printed materials for study

IRB review costs

Buy-out of clinical/staff nurses' time so they may participate as members of the study team

Compensation for:

Research Assistant time (includes hiring students)

Mentor time

Investigator time

Fringe benefits

Staff nurses' time when they are subjects of the study

Faculty compensation (except in a limited role as consultant on a unique aspect of the study

If Your Grant is Funded

INTERIM AND FINAL REPORTS

At the half-way point and at the conclusion of your study or evidence-based practice project, we require a report from our Grantees. To review the requirements for these reports, please click on the following:

We will post the findings of your study on our web site and will discuss with you the specifics prior to our doing so.

Importantly, we require all Grantees to submit their work to Sigma Theta Tau International's Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library. For further information on submitting to the Virginia Henderson Repository, please follow this link. Your Library submission is not considered traditional publishing and you retain all copyrights to your work.

If a project funded by The DAISY Foundation cannot be completed for any reason, the Foundation must be informed immediately and unspent funds must be returned to the Foundation.In summary, we will fund studies and projects that represent good science, will impact patients and their families in a direct way, and have potential outside one's own institution.